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UN welcomes agreement between Serbia and Kosovo on EU membership
April 21, 2013 by Jaimie Cremeans
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released a statement on Friday welcoming a landmark agreement between Serbia and Kosovo regarding membership in the European Union (EU) that he hopes will help bring stability to the Balkans. The agreement, negotiated in Brussels on Friday, states that both.... [more]
Serbia asks UN tribunal to hand over evidence against freed Croatian generals
November 26, 2012 by Daniel Mullen
The Serbian Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor sent a letter to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday requesting materials and evidence from the case files of two Croatian generals, whose convictions were overturned by the ICTY last week. The 3-2 decision.... [more]
Retrial ordered for Kosovo politician accused of war crimes
November 20, 2012 by Cynthia Miley
The Kosovo Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a retrial against Kosovo politician and parliamentarian Fatmir Limaj and three other co-defendants on charges of war crimes allegedly committed during the 1998-99 Kosovo war with Serbia. Limaj allegedly ordered the torture and killings of Serbian.... [more]
UN rights chief urges Serbia to allow gay pride parade
October 4, 2012 by Brandon Gatto
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday urged Serbia to protect universal freedoms and allow a banned pride parade for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. The pride parade, which was scheduled to be held this Saturday in Belgrade, was canceled by the Serbian.... [more]
Serbia court convicts 11 Albanians of war crimes in Kosovo
September 20, 2012 by Jaimie Cremeans
A Serbian war crimes court on Wednesday convicted 11 former members of the Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) of war crimes committed in Kosovo in 1999, acquitting six others. The 11 convicted were sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for crimes including detaining and torturing 147 people and.... [more]
Kosovo parliament eliminates foreign supervisory committee
September 7, 2012 by Rebecca DiLeonardo
The Kosovo parliament on Friday voted 98-10 to eliminate the mention of a western-led supervisory commission from its constitution, effectively closing the office. The International Civilian Office (ICO) was created by a coalition of nations that recognized Kosovo's independence from Serbia and.... [more]
Mladic cousin receives suspended sentence for haboring fugitive
August 14, 2012 by Dan Taglioli
A cousin of former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic on Tuesday received a suspended sentence of one year in prison for hiding the accused war criminal in his house for five years before Mladic was arrested in 2011. Branislav Mladic hid his cousin at his home in the village of Lazarevo in.... [more]
Serbia captured final ICTY fugitive Goran Hadzic [this day at law]
July 20, 2012 by Cody Harding
On July 20, 2011, Serbian authorities arrested Goran Hadzic, who was sought by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the last of the court's original 161 war crimes fugitives. At a press conference later that day, Serbian President Boris Tadic announced the.... [more]
Hungary court dropped war crimes charges against accused Nazi [this day at law]
July 18, 2012 by Katherine Bacher
On July 18, 2011, a Hungarian court dropped charges against accused Nazi war criminal Sandor Kepiro, who allegedly participated in a 1942 massacre in Serbia. The decision came down after Kepiro's trial on charges of war crimes had begun. Kepiro denied any involvement in the massacre and all.... [more]
Serbia court sentences 14 individuals for war crimes
June 26, 2012 by Sung Un Kim
The War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court on Tuesday sentenced 14 former members of the Yugoslav army and paramilitaries for killing non-Serb civilians during the Serbo-Croatian War in which around 20,000 people lost their lives. The court found that the prosecution had presented.... [more]
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